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I have a 10 Gb drive and a 4Gb drive. The 4Gb is partitioned into 2 2Gb bits. Recently, I have had problems with installing new memory, and have had to go back from 160Mb to 64Mb. The second partition on the 4Gb drive has since disappeared. Any ideas?Fdisk shows that it's a 2 Gb drive at 100% usage with only 1 partition.

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Partition disappeared (different to some

Check your CMOS settings and make sure the hard drive settings have not changed. It is probably being autodetected. However, because you were changing the RAM, you may have changed/saved CMOS settings.

For some reason, you computer may be detecting the drive as a 2 gig....

Partition disappeared (different to some

Having spoken to a few people about the motherboard, it seems that the extra SIMMs power surged the board, helping it lose the drive. Allegedly it's an unrecoverable error. I'm going to keep trying for a while, but if I don't solve it soon, I'm going to have to give up. Arse.

Partition disappeared (different to some

Partition disappeared (different to some

I agree with the suggestion to verify the drive geometry in the CMOS. I'm also assuming that this drive wasn't installed with any software BIOS extensions so that the motherboard could see the whole thing.

If the CMOS drive geometry is correct, thenthe findings in Fdisk are really worrisome and the only tool I've ever used successfully to recover a lost partition is Hard Drive Mechanic. It hasn't worked with every case but depending on the value of the data on that partition, it might beworth trying.

I know this doesn't paint a rosy scenario but that's 'cuz it isn't. If you had backups, you're now at the point that you would be using them.

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